Breathe in this moment
Breathe in this moment,
And breathe out your rage.
Serenity and peace
Will come as you age.
Worry not of your folly,
But let the past go.
Just like the weather,
Let everything flow.
Life, it comes natural
To us on this earth,
The right to our freedom
Is given at birth
Monday 30th November 2015 8:59 pm
Also by Eric Berard:
But soon, he will be free | The heartless child wanders | I just don't know what to do anymore | My soul seeks to be free | Grow together | Back into my mind I go | Move With the World's Flow |amy
The world
Smells
Beautiful
Just after
A storm
And
The best
Thing you
Ever did
Was
HitHimBack
Monday 30th November 2015 8:49 pm
Also by Stuart Buck:
after the storm | the storm | Beaujolais | soup | heavy shelling | a fine vintage | The Beverley Westwood UFO Adventure Club | shadow (a tanka horror story) | stain | bile | bite | once upon the sea of blissful awareness | mitochondrial blues | i got those human blues | marrow | shot | maps | blackbird | whisper | Les Bulot | Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | i got the sad sad blues | cineri gloria sera est |Therein The Beast Lies
Therein The Beast Lies
How complicit are they,
They that propagate the hate
We serve beneath?
And you my friend of World,
Are you in allegiance
With deceit and power and,
Should and does it matter today?
Do we allow reality
Befall us all,
Or do we turn our back
Upon its value,
‘Consider’ only ourselves
And not,
The World
In whic...
Monday 30th November 2015 8:11 pm
Also by Noetic-fret!:
The Yearning - Broken |Say Nothing
Hush….
Don’t
Write
Don’t
Say a
Word
A time
And
A place
Not to
Diverse
Say
Nothing
If nothing
Is written
Or
Said
It cannot
Be seen
Or placed
In the head
If not
Heard
Or
Seen
Then it
Didn’t
Take place
There’s
An art
To saying
Nothing
Fingers on
Lips
Children
And
...
Monday 30th November 2015 7:44 pm
WHAT WOULD WE DO IF THE POEMS RAN OUT
What would we do if the poems ran out
our energy supplies cut off?
How would we explain that away
without the words and what they convey?
Like the blind we'd have to evolve
with only the touchrod of insight to solve
those infinite days and their challenging ways
to stumble over imponderable matters
and stare at statues
or bleakly at sunsets
devoid ...
Monday 30th November 2015 3:53 pm
Also by ray pool:
BIG BAND | NOVEMBER DAYS | MARBLES | SMALL ASSASSINATIONS | WHEN MARGARET MET RONALD | IN SHEPHERD'S BUSH W.12 | A RIDE ON THE FOOTPLATE OF LORD NELSON | THEY'RE LEAVING HOME | SERVICE WITH A SMILE | ser | ser | THE UNPROTECTED STREET | SOUTHERN ELECTRIC | THE DAY THE CLOUDS CAME | POWER CUT | THE WISDOM OF THE UPRIGHT SPINE | WHAT'S THE TIME ON MARS? | DOVERCOURT BAY HOLIDAY CAMP 1950 | GOLF: THE REAL STORY part the second | GOLF: THE REAL STORY | AN EVENING AT THE RITZ BALLROOM BRIGHOUSE WITH THE JOE LOSS ORCHESTRA | MONOPOLY BLUES | WAITING WITH SAD PATIENCE | IN A FUNNY SORT OF WAY | BEHIND THE WHEEL | ON V.E. DAY | WHEN BUGSY SIEGEL MADE THE BIG TIME | WE'RE MAKING REAL PROGRESS | THE GATE OF THE RISING SUN | THE FOG | LITTLE GIRL IN LOVE | ON THE NORTHERN LINE |This is the modern world ...
I open my front door, straight into climate change and the dull M1 roar – all hours.
I go to the school as a teacher, only to drain creativity and imagination out of the kids,
With constant assessment and onlyone focus on grades.
GCSE’s are only league tables’ kids.
I pass by people, finger fucking their apps and friends with smart phone dementia.
Press ‘like’ , press ‘share’ ...
Monday 30th November 2015 2:01 pm
Also by David Addington:
Bluff amongst the olives (For Ted Hughes and J.R.Hartley) | Dividing the corners (a prose poem - stream of consciousness type of thing) 97' | If (a song lyric) | Up int' Pool | Making a blog and what a good site this is | WHERE WE LAST MET | From Evolution (95) | Thoughts on parsley | Thoughts of a 'pea' | ANOTHER WORLD (Inspired by the poems of Adrian Henri) 97' | HISTORIC AGE OF EXCELLENCE (1996) | IN – BETWEEN DAY (an ansgt poem of the 90's) | The Bass (96) | INFLUENZA (95) | BAT - (MAN) | Kingdom of the fells | A Galaxy far, far away... (first draft 2015) | Campfire song | ROADWORKS (97) | Preponderance of GOD (type thing) | Haiku | Restless Spirit (first ever poem written 1991) | http://SURF'S UP.mmm (1997) | On Visiting Rome | Disappointments | Rob the train | On a visit to Amsterdam in 2006 | Southend DeNiro | Peak – Y – appetite (Matlock, 1998) | 18A IN KESWICK (1995) | As Sala malai kum | Genevive (1998) | On the dole in Workington (1995) | X-ray specs (97) | Tuna chaos (1995) | Sunbathing (1995) 20th anniversary edition | St Christopher's court (student accommodation) (1998) | A man walks into a pub... (1999) | The lonely Roman (For Auden, 97) | S & R NONSENSE (messing with a dictionary) | Waiting for Old Smoothy | A bit of a do at the poetry café | M. O. T. (self-portrait, 1998) | Damp day in the Lakes 97' | Ode to a friend |Against All Odds
Tyson Fury is definitely one of a kind
A man of grit and steel if you don’t mind
A gentle giant with something special to prove
Inside the ring, just watch him on the move
The boxing world is in for an almighty shock
From this travelling man of Irish gypsy stock
His opponent is a mountain named Klitschko
Will he triumph and win the day - I don’t think so
They go into battle...
Monday 30th November 2015 10:48 am
Crowd Measures
Suggestion to believe, attempts for waking
Operating in quizzed facade, holes masking
Reality, tenants streaming, marked, restless
People too proud to sign away the crust
Almost defiant, though wind and cold dent
Order in file, pattern disrupted, hard-desked
Travel through fire to freeze in fog warped
Control can't take the heart from the flame.
Sunday 29th November 2015 10:49 pm
missing memory
Back where I was once
I am now contrived,
Awaiting the return trip;
Waiting in strained advance-
Abandoned thus obliged.
This situationist event
Becomes an angry retort:
To reply to actions
One must think
of the consequences-
Or file a 'Missing' report.
words and foto Tommy Carroll
Sunday 29th November 2015 5:24 pm
Also by Tommy Carroll:
The trouble with Derek | will there be anything else...? | "sir?" | Anonymous | (untitled) | Deeply breathing | Deeply breathing |The Ladies Hat
I wrote this poem while in Aviemore on a Highland Creative Writing course. We had to pick an item of furniture and turn it into somethingelse. I chose a lampshade and turned it into a hat.
The ladies hat
Was like a lampshade
And it was
Much too big
When she put it on
It altered the shape
Of her wig!
She was hoping to
Go to Ascot
And the races
But, when her hat an...
Sunday 29th November 2015 3:59 pm
Also by Tina Rooney:
It rained for 40 days and 40 nights |The Dearth of Abigail
The wind howls,
The choral voice of unified wolves,
In the night - the wild pack stalks,
Reaping vengeance with blood fueled sentiment,
It twists and turns in my gut,
Feral outcasts to sink teeth,
Snarling with vicious purpose,
To tear sinew from bone,
Plunging deeper into innocent flesh,
That bleeds with reverence,
Life pouring from my sullen veins,
I revile the r...
Sunday 29th November 2015 2:46 pm
Anger in a Spin
Wanting solid understanding
instead Mother adopting
vain Stepsister coming
from fairytale home.
Glass mirror Princess
taunting humple dwelling
upper class mountain
overlooking council valley.
Outrageous branded outfits
fashionable tasteless shoes
lifestyle not fitting
into Waynes's world.
To escape tension
smoking strong weed
getting so high
...Sunday 29th November 2015 8:45 am
Also by Nigel Astell:
One of Many | Just the Three of Us |there
cuttin daisy
oh, we gettin hazy
forgettin the trophy wives
paying in time, midnight tithes
pearly grins chasing irrespose
knife kept close to the table though
we're beginners to skullduggery
past the age of forty five
self-manager funeral the righteous ones
we're scandal like a saint suns
blood for iron
that's how we've always traded it
prove your worthlessness in a cage
earnt re...
Saturday 28th November 2015 1:18 am
Also by Zach Dafoe:
lost compass magnet (11/22/2015) | 4300 (11/15/2015) | John Wayne 1613 (11/05/2015) |The Freedom of 'ART'
I think
Poetry has Power:
the definitive Art of Words.
Perhaps a siren song of tonal syllables
running music through the mind;
an elusive vision caught with inspired imagery;
or a bold reality wrenched into reason;
But especially the seductive expansion
of metaphysical meaning
whether deliberate or not.
I think
we taste and test the value of an apt word
pr...
Friday 27th November 2015 12:34 pm
Also by Cynthia Buell Thomas:
A Hard Line | Reflections on 'Aristotle's Poetics' |comrade osborne and the little red book
comrade osborne and the little red book
The chancellor’s autumn statement
and McDonnell’s quoting Mao!
It’s a joke. A jest. A jolly jape
to illustrate just how
George is selling off our assets
to global profiteers
and the Chinese state is buying up
the things which we hold dear
while the media says... nothing
a conspiracy of silence
on illiterate economics
and structural state viol...
Thursday 26th November 2015 10:02 pm
Also by steve pottinger:
21st c. enlightenment blues |THE WOOLLY TRUNKS
We didn’t have much money but none of us did then;
I hope we never see those austere times come back again.
But Mam and Dad both did their best for Linda and for me
So once a year we’d take the train for Skeggie-by-the-Sea.
We packed our sheets and blankets and put-ups for our bunks
But worst of all embarrassments we packed the woolly trunks.
The woolly trunks were legend; m...
Thursday 26th November 2015 8:10 pm
Also by John Coopey:
TRIG'S BROOM | A TRIP TO THE ZOO | RYAN AIR 2 | THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN |DEREK HATTON
With a nod to Edward Thomas.
............................................
Yes - I remember Derek Hatton...the name
Because one political summer of heat
The media drew up there interestedly.
The Party hissed. Many votes left and few votes came
To that bare platform
What I recall is Hatton...just the name.
........................................................................
Thursday 26th November 2015 5:52 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
DO YOU BELIEVE? | PARIS - FRIDAY 13 NOV. 2015 | UNCHARITABLE THOUGHTS (1) | UNCLE NICK | BEST INFORMED | FOR JENNY | THE LAST OF THE PAST | HAND OVER |Balancing act
I should find
some way to combine
the lightness of these giggles
and earnest, loaded questions,
this freedom, ropes of light,
my sorrow, pounded wisdom.
I should move
between the child who wants
just to be fickle, tickling, gaping,
and this silent, throbbing person
whose torments are my own.
Red leaves are rotting under too much care.
Can we tilt
am...
Thursday 26th November 2015 1:10 am
queen nicotine
Nicotine is my queen,
She will be with me allways ,
But she treats me so mean,
Shes wot i want allways,
My freedom i want to redeem,
But im her prisoner allways.
She stands there with her hand on her hip, and licking her lip
I cant refuse a kiss.
Im calling out mayday,
I cant keep this
bitch at bay.
She stole my soul,
Now im stuck
in this tobacco hell hole.
Shes between my finger...
Wednesday 25th November 2015 10:35 am
Also by Robyn Valentine:
Lust lies | A crack in love | Step back | A soft touch | That first kiss | Through the night | Life, love and lust. |dance
life is but a dance,
from the fast to the slow
from the heartbreaking to the breath taking
we live a dance
work is merely the box step
going round and round again
ralationships are like the conga
kick a leg out only to bring it back again
life is just a dance
prosicution of the steps are key
if you fail you need to get back into the rythm of success
bac...
Wednesday 25th November 2015 2:44 am
Also by Gypno:
once in a dream | friends | rivers | alone | push on |A stone can't
Only on grounds of seniority
By default
You try to assume authority
But mind that
Though for a century
Under water comfortably sat,
Swim like a fish
A stone can't!//
With no effort to acquire knowledge, at times some members of the old staff undermine the young staff !
Tuesday 24th November 2015 2:24 pm
Also by Alem Hailu G/Kristos:
Who is the saint? | What a turn of fate! | A shifting goal post | Devil could not be God |The Snowflake
The Snowflake Poem
A form of infinite beauty
A creation unlike any other,
Every crystal a masterpiece
Of design never to be repeated,
Crafted in the greatest architecture
But so transiently and fleetingly seen.
One flake of individual beauty
Made to melt and be lost forever,
Every frosted fern just gone
With no trace left behind,
One of nature’s greatest ...
Tuesday 24th November 2015 1:45 pm
C-R-A-P World Holidays
I’m looking for a holiday.
I’m surfing on the internet.
I want a little getaway,
a place I haven’t been yet.
I hit on this site
-‘s got lovely colour photos,
the prices are all right,
there’s lotsa countries you can go.
It’s called: Culturerelaxationandadventurepackageworld.com. Culturerelaxationandadventurepackageworld.com
That’s C-R-A-P-World dot com.
C-R-A-P
CRAP WORLD! CR...
Tuesday 24th November 2015 12:56 pm
Also by Tim Ellis:
No Warning | Fracking Hell! | Speak The Unspeakable |Ecoute
Ecoute L’Indifference
Mister Watts and I are struggling to persuade
the venerable ladies of Cottingham Library
to let us loose on the good book borrowers
of Cottingham and Mister Watts and I
are so very dedicated to our craft. That
of poetry and our recitals even though I say
so myself are very entertaining. We have that
Pizzazz. But the esteemed ladies pass on our
details to anot...
Monday 23rd November 2015 7:39 pm
Also by Peter Knaggs:
The Sesh |Power
Blood.
Crimson, shining, wet.
It pools around my feet,
Weaving through the valleys of my toes.
Warm to the touch.
Beauty found in the form of creation:
I created this. I brought this to the surface.
Allowed it to travel my hills and valleys;
Emotions running over my knees
Hate dripping off my thigh
Love contouring my wrists.
Power found in the smallest of object...
Sunday 22nd November 2015 7:14 pm
Also by MusicPoet:
Stabbed | absence |Bordering On The Rediculous
Bordering On The Ridiculous.
We’re leading up to Christmas,
The season of goodwill,
The bombings and the shootings,
There’s someone there to kill.
The global situation,
The terror is the street.
And half a million refugees,
Are voting with their feet.
You can’t equate our village life,
With Syria or worse,
Our lives must seem like heaven,
And thei...
Saturday 21st November 2015 11:16 pm
Savour the Fall
Outside a warm room
In some middle-class place
Tramps starve
Children drown
Economies crumble
Nations arm
Wars rage
Powers fall
People mourn
Debts mount
Rapists prowl
Fools pray
Cars crash
Victims weep
Wounds bleed
Madmen rage
The kettle clicks.
A steaming latte
Warms contented lips.
Saturday 21st November 2015 9:45 pm
Also by J F Keane:
Atlas Shrugged |Modern Science
(Another Limerick-rant)
Their behaviour was quite idiotic
Concerning the antibiotic
Jabbing swig after swig
Into fattening pig
Leaving future bug-battling chaotic
Friday 20th November 2015 10:44 pm
Also by Harry O`N eill:
Anything they can do we can do.....? |Why?
Soft murmurings
Carried on the wings of a breeze,
Lost in space
Not knowing
Why.
Breeze turns to gale
Murmurings become screams and
Shouting
Why?
Only God knows!
Friday 20th November 2015 7:04 pm
Also by Anita Connor:
Who is this sod called God? | Bow window | Fish in the fog! | The light is brighter | Who am I? | Feeling loved |It ends when it comes
A weakened soul replicates an owl
concerned this delicate branch will fail
lay still, perturbed to retrace
today's shift a far off place
eventually will arrive in its own time
if one awakens to save face
A constant sorrow known too well
frequently isolated constant spell
not to mention that fateful word
down in the dungeon unheard
way down where the brave men g...
Friday 20th November 2015 4:54 am
Also by PatricioLG:
Magnus | Damn Garden | Ghosts are the past | Bot or Not ? | Need to write | Hated but Loved | I hear the Woodpecker | Moonlit Lake | Love is peace | Man | Seasoned | Wear a poppy? | Same year, Worlds apart | Looking out of the window | I write coz | The November line | Troubled sleep | Sausage |CROC OF SHIT
From Facebook came a Croc of Shit
To read and click and share
No longer I'll put up with it
Accused that I 'don't care'
"Share this if you have a heart"
"If you 'like' please type 'Amen'"
It stinks more than a day old fart
To read this shit again.. again.. again
I don't care if you send a curse
Wrath of God and all his might
One Direction would be worse
A...
Thursday 19th November 2015 7:43 pm
Also by Daniel Dwyran:
DEALS ON WHEELS | THE PLACE WHERE ONLY DEAD MEN SLEEP |Lantern Lane
It’s okay
in our own ways
we all break
apart sometimes
when we’re apart
sometimes
I break
I saw the light one evening
walking home
what was I doing
lost, there
when I should have been
with you
just you
It’s okay
in our own ways
we all break
apart sometimes
Walking home
I face myself fully
face all I’ve done
And tell myself
it’s okay
it’s alright
we all break
br...
Thursday 19th November 2015 5:09 pm
Chant Down the common enemy
We’ll never rest after stating: we can’t
We need a short common word composite
Let’s make a global one love people’s chant
Not big media but the opposite
They want our minds to stay in their big box
They’re kind of good at scaring everyone
What they can really do good is kick rocks
They want to make sure to sell every gun
They’ll have us think Bill, young wo...
Thursday 19th November 2015 4:30 pm
Summers End Turvin Moor to Cragg Vale
Summer’s End, Turvin Moor to Cragg Vale
The long dry spell affects me
Peat desiccated and dusty taking the shine off my boots
White sand blown and banked at the path sides into small dunes
Quartz scoured from rock outcrops peppers the peat hags
Heather flowers faded from purple to brown husks clinging to clothing
Collon Bobs with ash coloured stems petrified by last winter’s burn
...Thursday 19th November 2015 11:37 am
Also by Graham Ramsden:
Picking snails by moonlight |Dark
Dark
It is the darkest of dark
An inky black of Carbon Sea
Where sky and water are of one
Where hell in its fury is unleashed
As it sweeps and swaggers
Upon all it surveys
Fury set ablaze
Its shadow cast upon sea and land
Every man, woman or child that falls
Beneath its breath
Beneath its gaze that witness
The spark and crackle of r...
Tuesday 17th November 2015 10:46 pm
Also by Martin Elder:
Summers such as these |Answer to a Prayer
I was kind of hoping,
That you would come along,
Like the answer to a prayer,
And the music to a song.
Like the kind of thing that happens,
At a special place and time,
That will change our lives forever,
Like a fantasy of mine.
The fantasy was there before,
I ever knew your name,
And now that I have found you,
We will never be the same.
So, pardon, if I look at you,
Forgive me ...
Tuesday 17th November 2015 12:43 pm
Also by Allen Jo Mathews:
A Dream Come True | My Baby Boo |Paris, 13 November 2015
Paris, 13 November 2015
I weep for you, Paris,
Every beautiful boulevard,
Every humble street
Whose pavements so often have welcomed my feet –
Every drop of blood shed;
Every beating heart dead;
Every au revoir said –
Your heart-beat is mine, too:
Paris, I weep for you –
And WE say to hate: you will never destroy
Good. And we SHALL sing for joy ...
Tuesday 17th November 2015 7:17 am
Horror Story
Full moon.
A wolf turned human
Is given papers,
A leather carrying case,
A chair and desk
At which to gnaw
His new chains.
Monday 16th November 2015 10:43 pm
Also by Tom Harding:
November | Cat | Late Night |Kite Flying
And the spirit of youth
Share it - let go of your cares
Fly your kite with a passion
and ignore the dull fashion
to stay indoors – Get some fresh air
Make freedom your aim
Gape in awe as it sails in the breeze
Allow a smile to your face
And give daydreams some space
Just watch out for lightning and trees
Monday 16th November 2015 7:56 am
Vindication
Tear off my guilt,
tie me to your salvation,
innocence will fall,
at your feet of vindication.
Katypoetess 2015
Sunday 15th November 2015 9:30 pm
Also by Katy Megan:
Ecstasy |Kieran
Our lovely son
One minute you were here
And then you were gone.
We tried all we could to help you stay
But you just faded away.
And your mother she did all she could,
And me, along in tow; but nothing could we do:
But face the fact of desolation row.
For decades we have lived with this
And tried the best we can,
But Kieran’s very absence
Has left me as I am.
Sunday 15th November 2015 9:15 pm
Take My Hand
Take my hand
Where we stand
I know you can
If you just try
I dont want to cry
But it hurts
Makes me feel like dirt
Why can't you hold my hand?
Is it because I'm bland?
Are you proud?
Am I too loud?
Why can't you just say I am yours and you are mine?
Everything was going fine
But alas I feel like I'm lying
I'm wanting more
More than you are willing to gi...
Sunday 15th November 2015 6:11 pm
Also by Amanda:
My feelings on Obamacare | Butterflies -- 07/2015 | Nervous -- 07/2015 |Poetry at Stalybridge Train station
despite not been at my best today, i was over today at a exhibition launch at stalybridge train station mixing together poetry and photography which featured two of my poems
http://onewriterandhispc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/poetry-at-stalybridge-train-station.html
it's in the waiting room on platform 4 if you are ever passing. excellent fun (
Saturday 14th November 2015 10:55 pm
Also by Andy N:
poems-for-national-psoriais-awarness week |Our Lives, Our Lives
The sharp sounds of popping gun shots.
The sharp reality of every shot heard
rings out to another mindless death
another mindful human being.
The gunmen hidden from view
finding it hard to relate
Hard to understand...
the gunmen's venomous hate.
Senseless killing, screams chilling.
Scrambling to escape in any route they find.
Clinging to window panes
Whilst panicke...
Saturday 14th November 2015 8:29 pm
Paris is Beautiful
Paris is beautiful
knee deep in French blood
stepped over by my Muslim brothers
it's understood
you saw him in a doorway
heard him chant
“where doing this in Allah's name”
saw him collect groceries and a few chemicals in between
but you did nothing ...
but step over French blood
it's understood ..
as it's western and impure
holds the values ...
Saturday 14th November 2015 6:27 pm
Also by David R Mellor:
I Have Killed My Child |BEYOND THE HORIZONS
The ice in her eyes
Melted the trickle of lies
Encrypted on her face
Exposing a jasmine malaise
A trace of despair
Aces - a pair
Concealed up her sleave
Flattered to decieve
The weave of the web
The nails - a bed
The words - token
Olive branches, stripped - broken
Guilt sounds tip toe
Around a blonde glow
In the looking glass
Of new mown ...
Friday 13th November 2015 4:29 pm
Journals
Something I've been pondering:
When you read a journal's submission guidelines, they almost always say "Read a few issues of our journal first, so you know what sort of thing we want." But time and money constrain the number of journals that anyone can keep up with. Does this really mean that it's only good form to attempt to submit to four or five particular journals?
Friday 13th November 2015 3:35 pm
Old Court Gig
Read a couple of poems at Old Court, Wigan for the first time and enjoyed it. Great atmosphere, great poems and (dare I say it?) great compere. Hope to see you all next time.
Bill Lythgoe
Friday 13th November 2015 11:57 am
How not to
How to write poetry manuals
How sad are they?
That so desperately seeking
You’d take time from the day
To give credence to what
The accepted might say
To sit in a room
And think it away
Friday 13th November 2015 10:36 am
Also by harry:
Bullshit | Full Stop | War as a Cure | Shut Up and Write | Drop at Prater Park |Wait, Wait,Wait
Wait! Wait! Wait!
Ok, run
HA-HA-HA
See what I've done
Drawn your attention, just to pity your innocense.....
Wait! Wait! Wait!
Friday 13th November 2015 1:05 am
Also by Jeremy X:
X |For Janis
the night falls
in silence
time
fades the
summer grass
and i count
each
stepping breath
of your heart
Thursday 12th November 2015 6:44 pm
Don't Worry Little Fish
Keep calm my dear, the night is long,
Our time is short, so just keep strong.
In my arms, where you shall stay,
night after night, day after day.
Your waters calm, the lake is stilled,
Desires awaken, the heart fulfilled.
You want to run, the fear has grown,
Day after day, the path is shown.
A rippling tide, overwhelming love.
A little gift, from God above.
Embrace it all, take my ha...
Wednesday 11th November 2015 11:11 pm
In...then out
Why do Dr's think that I want to die,
I've told them time and again,
It's because I hurt and because I cry,
It's a way to release all the pain.
They don't try to hide that they're fed up,
With the "bad behaviour" they see,
If they'd take the time to see things close up,
Maybe they'd see things in me.
They don't see i'm embarrassed every time,
Each time tha...
Wednesday 11th November 2015 10:10 pm
Also by Angela McCrimmon:
Self-Medication |Bricked In
I imagine the rough rasp of brick
on my skin.
No, I feel the rough rasp of brick
on my skin.
Bricked in.
It depends on which way the wind
is blowing.
Because there are gaps that let in
the light.
And they let in wind too
sometimes.
I crook my neck to the light that seeps
through gaps.
The Layer allows there to be air holes..
Light holes.
When the light is bright i search for
...
Wednesday 11th November 2015 9:16 pm
Unknown Solider
Unknown Soldier
He died on the first day
of the battle of the Somme
blood-shod and flailing in no-mans land
until one blow immortalised him.
Venerated in clay he became - everyman
classroom lesson, hero and bronze plaque
forever poised for his final call.
His face - grotesque lines of agony
until polish smoothed all away.
Now, more than a hun...
Wednesday 11th November 2015 6:48 pm
Heavy
Heavy
All issues aren’t life and death
Though life and death are full of issues
Everything matters
We make priorities based on fear
We lie to protect secrets because
We don’t know how to be us
Without secrets
Compromises make cowards of us
Meanwhile that human race in a hand basket
Metaphor gets closer to hell everyday
We’re not running out of time
Time is run...
Wednesday 11th November 2015 12:34 pm
Do it Again
You're a bloodthirsty hedonist
Mocked by your work
With your toil aboard
And your pension to shirk
All the blood thirsty thoughts
That now occupy head
As you quantify living
While praising the dead.
You pick up a hammer
While dreaming of booze
With two nails in your teeth
You're not ready to lose
And the tighter you bite
The more brittle they grow
...Wednesday 11th November 2015 12:17 pm
Forbidden
I let my walls come down, when it was you I found.
I gave it all to you, to fix something we can't undo.
I broke down in silenced rain and there you came, walking in a softened pace,
you can never be replaced.
The beating of my heart stops everytime I stare at the clock for I know time is passing by,
endless tears fall from my eyes.
When I set blue eyes upon you, I...
Tuesday 10th November 2015 3:23 pm
Also by Eros_Girl:
Dear Joker |Money Talks
Bling talks
It chews, it spits, it mouths
Expletives and
Empty promises
Jarring chains
On necks bowed down
Bent
With
Pride
In how much you own.
Tuesday 10th November 2015 1:48 pm
The Hardown Fyrd
{a poem for Remembrance Sunday}
We were the shield-wall, here at the barrow’s edge
The first wave the enemy met, and broke on:
They buried us, when we had fallen, in
Earth, always the warrior’s last billet. When and
Where we had fallen. Sword, spear and shield
We held in death, as we had done in life –
Sword pommel still gripped in bony fingers.
Still ready, side ...
Tuesday 10th November 2015 1:35 am
Also by STEVE RUDD:
String Theory |November Collage Poem: Smoke
Neutral mind draped across grimy windows,
Got to be cocks and screwdrivers
Ducking and diving across unexpected surprises
Policies of strange girls from Blackpool
and Brief Encounters recycled in Staleybridge
Lumps of snot tubes or mask
Red sore skin rubbed to rust
We meet in hospital corridors,
Platforms of abandoned train stations
It was 50 yea...
Monday 9th November 2015 10:00 pm
Also by Stockport WoL:
Verna Broadhurst |Tonight
Tonight I am glowing.
I am wearing my feelings on the outside.
like a new outfit,
The colour not yet faded,
The cloth uncreased.
I dance past the mirror
on light feet.
Admire the cut,
Note how well it fits,
How it brightens my eyes,
Puts a swing in my hips.
I look in the wardrobe.
Worn outfits left to hang,
Accessories stuffed in drawers,
Shut w...
Monday 9th November 2015 9:48 pm
Also by Julie Anne Sugden:
Going Back | Cornwall | SafetyWarning |Nineteen Meters
There, seated at one of the bleachers,
Far distant from me, nineteen meters.
There, a girl before you,
Like a piece of a broken tableau.
For me, it was likely,
A vision, pain with no remedy,
Loud laughs, so clear in view,
Nineteen meters away, such a milieu.
Just heartful days ago,
The pair of your eyes never forego,
What was seen in the sight of me,
Such...
Monday 9th November 2015 4:09 pm
Also by Marianne May:
Once Upon A Dream | Turbulence |I gave you my heart, love
For I have given you my soul
I have never doubted our love
For I have loved you more
I dreamt no other man than you
To hold my father’s hand one day
Take his daughter as your wedded wife
To care and love till the end of life
But you’ve doubted my love
I had loved you unconditionally
You’ve taken me for granted
I stayed through the seconds my heart was break...
Monday 9th November 2015 7:59 am
Also by Qdrya:
Dear.Love |TOMORROW
TOMORROW
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day
The sea rises and falls
A great abdomen
Gasping for breath.
We enjoy 'winter sun'
Freakish for November
But we don't complain
They didn't either.
Outside on the promenade
Soldiers paraded
Before leaving for France
We have the old photos.
Here too a salute was taken
Near where ice c...
Sunday 8th November 2015 10:28 pm
Dreich
Here's a poem about two very different but inextricable subjects.
DREICH
I'm sure it's raining on Blabheinn,
that's there's harsh smirr in Hallistra,
low cloud hanging wet & heavy
like kelp over Greshornish
& that the hardy women of Roag
are bowing happed heads
against winter already.
In Dumfries, where there are
500 indigenous English
language words for dreich,
I dream of the t...
Sunday 8th November 2015 8:48 pm
Also by Stuart A. Paterson:
Life & Death in a Northern Climate |Transition
The butterfly hung suspended,
Sunday 8th November 2015 8:46 pm
Also by Katie Seymour (KT):
Breakthrough |Pain
Throw me on the ground,
say it will be over soon.
My screams are silenced,
I pray to god to get rid of you.
You sigh with release,
and smile down at me.
I feel your cold fingers trace my thigh,
but see your dissapointment as I begin to cry.
I beg you to stop,
these words I hoped someone would hear,
but noone is hear, nowhere near.
The sky is bright, but I feel myself grow dark,
With ev...
Friday 6th November 2015 10:53 pm
Also by Sara E.:
I love you. I hate you |I Smile
Wake up to the sun shining through my window
I Smile
Time to begin another day
I Smile
Clear, blue sky overhead as I walk to class
I Smile
Passing friendly and familiar faces
I Smile
It’s Friday ya’ll!
I Smile
Driving home on an old country road
I Smile
Aroma of fresh baked cookies when I open the door
I Smile
A hug from Momma, Dad, and Granny
I Smile
...Friday 6th November 2015 3:36 pm
Also by Bailey:
Separate Ways | To a Broken Heart |Clear Out
Angry sirens from the paper shredder
As I make a decision to destroy her,
for what use does she have for me now,
her youth, her hope, her old bank accounts?
The vacuum doesn’t open a gaping maw
There’s scarcely a memory any more
- I can’t mourn someone unremembered.
And so surrender my maiden name.
Friday 6th November 2015 12:16 pm
Walking Home at Night
Down a dusty sidewalk I dredge,
Darkness sours my off hour trek,
As low-beams gleam behind my back,
Growing shadows from tree and hedge.
Then so too sprouts my twilight twin,
Who shoots ahead at a furied pace,
His will is strong, he'll run the race,
Must I deny this 'me' the win?
For minutes--hours--we trade the lead,
As the cars pass he falls away,
Only to show it's all in play,
A...
Friday 6th November 2015 4:35 am
Rodeo Rider
skinny boy
sinuous body
feeling your hips
with your long slender fingers
following the curve of your bones
mini overland mountains of maleness
your belly a soft valley of curly dark hairs
legs stretching out to the end of the sun lounger
endless hot desert highways disappearing into the horizon
mesas and buttes hazy under blue skies
soaking up the heat like ...
Thursday 5th November 2015 12:56 am
message to a raped friend
Dignity is not in the vagina,
It's in who you are and what you've become,
Its in the memories made and those yet to come,
It's in every decision you're proud of,
And even in those you want to unmake,
In every smile and every kiss,
In every tear and angry hiss,
In promises kept and promises broken,
In every word you've ever spoken,
In how much you love yourself,
And ev...
Wednesday 4th November 2015 8:09 pm
Also by muse:
your electric touch |Thankyou
I would like to say thankyou to WriteOutLoud . For the pleasure of writing , when my heads in a cloud . For many long years having covered things up , a release unimaginable and no giving up . Can't wait for the next verse to come into my head , being able to leave a long time thread . I've had lots of experience so numerous to say , of a world full of cruelty and people who betray . Let's hope t...
Wednesday 4th November 2015 6:31 am
Taboo sados bat ba bee binit beerter
Dear To Whom It Concerns.
Wonder if anything interesting is happening in there tonight ?
High on life hope no one minds . am feeling lucky enjoying being me
Thank God I was invited , I have a reason to go in !
So I went to the bar at the 3minute threater , as you do ,
And asked politely for a cider BUT to be honest
All I got from them was some seriously negative energy straigh...
Wednesday 4th November 2015 12:05 am
Ambition
I’m going to the top of the hill
And by hook or by crook
I’ll get there,
I will
It’s sunny at the top of the hill
With sun beds and free beer
And friendly people
With goodwill
And cheer
When I get there
I’ll relax for a while
And contemplate my climb.
Now I’ve reached the summit
Things can never be the same
And I can only go downhill
Again.
...Tuesday 3rd November 2015 8:50 pm
Field of Youth
Finding you wasn't hard
Although you all looked the same
Beneath ever changing skies
Stark bright and upright
Against Summer cornflower skies
Bathed in sleepy Autumn hues
Pure, under skirts of wintery slate
Did you think, at twenty two
Generations would stand here
Imagining the glory, the fear
Gripping anger and sorrow
Racing clouds allow the sun a turn
You...
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 7:37 pm
SCAR TISSUE
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 3:55 pm
Hey Hipster
Don't think this is even a poem! It came about after I talked to what can only be described as, 'a hipster' who informed me that ,'tea is the new coffee'. Good to know, better start to stockpile it before the price rockets.
Hey Hipster, please leave tea alone.
You’ve had our coffee, beards and our seedy streets down the back of Shudehill.
So, with respect, fuck off and leav...
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 3:53 pm
to live
shame was mine I was a-shamed
existence a curse a sadness to bear
waited for a sun to rise on my horizon
broken though i was hope didn't seem scared
a star shone high up in my darkness
a twinkle of a dot of light u were
u planted me u got me up
u saved me from something they left me for
and then its all u; I never knew love
but its the past now its gone now
and now u...
Monday 2nd November 2015 6:13 pm
A Mime Rhyme
Can a Mime
make a rhyme?
Sure a Mime
can make a rhyme.
But who would
hear it?
Sunday 1st November 2015 1:46 am
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